SPOTLIGHT

Empowering young women to be a force for change through education and networking in Vienna

Watch United Nations’ new Youtube video on ‘Preventing the Spread of Nuclear Weapons’

Lebanon ratifies Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)

High Representative joins Chair of 2019 NPT PrepCom in Accepting “Appeal of the Hibakusha” petitions presented by Nihon Hidankyo

Statement by High Representative Nakamitsu to the Opening of the 2019 NPT Preparatory Committee

Izumi Nakamitsu discusses disarmament with Bill Miller on Global Connections Television

Reminder to Member States to submit military expenditure reports to UNODA by April 30

See Note Verbale here

Calling on youth to apply to UNDP’s ‘16 x 16’ initiative – deadline 19 April

UNODA UPDATE

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Empowering young women to be a force for change through education and networking in Vienna

High Representative Nakamitsu joins Ambassador Syed Mohamad Hasrin Aidid, Chair of 2019 NPT Preparatory Committee, in Accepting “Appeal of the Hibakusha” petitions presented by Nihon Hidankyo

High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Meets with Non-Governmental Organizations

Events Engaging Youth in Disarmament

Youth from China’s Diplomatic Advanced Training Program visit UNODA

FEATURED CONTENT

Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference

Overview and status of disarmament-related expert groups established under the Secretary-General’s auspices

First Committee of the Seventy-Third Session of the General Assembly

Securing Our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Permanent Missions of Austria and Mexico and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung organization invite delegates to a lunchtime side event, “The Nuclear Ban Treaty between Aspiration and Reality” Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 1-3pm UN Delegates Dining Room. RSVP required by 25 April 2019

Information for NGOs that wish to apply for ECOSOC consultative status for 2020 UN intergovernmental meetings (deadline 1 June 2019)

2019 Disarmament Fellowship Programme – Submission of nominations – Deadline 15 April 2019

Information for participation by non-governmental organizations in the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the NPT (Deadline for organizations: 1 March 2019)

Overview and status of disarmament-related expert groups established under the Secretary-General’s auspices

EVENTS

May 13 - June 28, 2019

Second session of the Conference on Disarmament

Geneva, Switzerland

May 20 - 24, 2019

Round table meeting on operational forensic ballistics

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

May 20 - 24, 2019

UNODC: Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, 28th session

Vienna, Austria

May 20 - 23, 2019

Arms Trade Treaty implementation course

Asuncion, Paraguay

May 27 - 29, 2019

CTBTO: Working Group A, 55th session

Vienna, Austria

June 3 - 4, 2019

UNODC: Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime: Working Group on Firearms, 7th session (tent.)

Vienna, Austria

June 3 - 4, 2019

Organizational session of the Open-ended Working Group on developments in the field of ICTs in the context of international security

New York

June 10 - 21, 2019

Field training on operational forensic ballistics

Nassau, Bahamas

June 10 - 14, 2019

IAEA: Board of Governors

Vienna, Austria

June 12 - 21, 2019

OOSA: Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, 62nd session

Vienna, Austria